Yvonne Stone

Yvonne Stone, Partner, D Young & Co, advises international and domestic clients in all contentious and non-contentious aspects of national and international trade mark, design, copyright and unfair competition law. Her non-contentious experience covers inter alia advice on trade mark and design filings as well as clearance searches/registrability advice. Yvonne’s contentious work includes extensive experience in handling national and multi-jurisdictional disputes ranging from opposition and cancellation proceedings to civil infringement proceedings. The latter comprises assisting clients with their anti-counterfeiting strategies as well as trade fair enforcement activities in Germany.

Yvonne handles proceedings before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office, the Federal German Patent Court, all German civil courts, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the General Court in Luxemburg. Before joining D Young & Co in 2019, Yvonne worked in the IP department of an international law firm. 

Yvonne speaks German and English fluently.